... Yes, it's a takeoff on Buckyspeak, like radome for radar dome. I started using the name hubdome because in it hubs overlapped into a complete structure,...
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Lee Bonnifield
lee@...
Jun 2, 2002 5:18 pm
Hi John Brawley, Kirby, Dick! I finally made it over here to synergeo. ... I agreed with your (JBw?) remarks to Dick about casual use of "random"; I warned...
Could not pass this up, found at a site about 'living trusts.' "If you earn it, they tax it. If you spend it, they tax it. If you give it away, they tax it. If...
... "Most of us are poor"-- tell that to the people who risk life and limb crossing the border. They must not know how bad off we have it here. Tom Ace...
http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0620/design_1-1.html Eden Project open for business. Many excellent new fotos here at Architecture Week. Viri don't have...
Nothing is the hole in the donut. Hmmm... Donuts KK ... form, I ... Tetrahedraverse. ... contains ... possible ... *something*, rather ... anyone ... ...
Nothing is responsible for us not running out of stuff. There is always more space, numbers, divisions, ideas. Sort of the reverse of nature abhors a vacuum....
So why can't we call the donut hole negative space? This Q directed at JBw, of course. Jim ... -- Jim Lehman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GeoJourney/...
From: "Jim Lehman" Subject: Re: [synergeo] Re: zero ... JBw, ... We can. We should, perhaps. We certainly can't call it "nothing." 1) It's a hole (a donut...
Hi, Lee! From: "Lee Bonnifield" ... From whom? Brian still pounding in there? (I left.) ... was ... Argh. Those are in synergeo's "archives"; Kirby knows...
Heres a picture of some "close fitting donuts" http://www.geocities.com/kruste_klown/home.html Hmmm..... Donuts KK ... directed at ... case it's ... the hole),...
Here is a nice circle-in-circle packing diagram. I imagine marbles in a balloon pack in the same way; outside layer fills first, then any space left over finds...
It again seems like we have an intersection of IVM and aberrant/ spherical. I little while ago there was this link to a picture of marbles on a horizontally...
If in 4 dimensions the kissing number can be 24 or 25, I wonder if this is related to the question of the "missing edge" of the VE. Is it the gap, or wiggle...
Dick, ... Yes, this would seem to be true. This 0.7404804 may also be seen as the ratio of the volume of an inscribed sphere to the volume of a containing ...
For n=16 and n=32, they show 2 type. One has squares and one doesn't. The one with squares is slightly higher in energy. I have not figured out where they get...
... It's like kissing in 2D or 3D: contacting at exactly one point. ... The definition at the top of that page is awkwardly worded; it says "a sphere" to...
From: "dick_fischbeck" ... What kissing number has to do with it, I dunno, but the wiggle room is the gap(s) in the 12-around-1 sphere-pack. A VE has no gaps...
... In any number of dimensions, kissing number is well defined; i.e., there's only one value. The 24/25 listed in various articles for 4D doesn't refer to...
They energy calculation in these n-sphere models is nicely stated here ... about ... Think of the final polyhedron. If the surrounding sphere was removed, the...
I don't understand. How can we have 1 value to the kissing number but then say it lies in a range? Isn't it going to be either 24 or 25, and not some number in...
I am conduction an experiment. I am stuffing marbles into a balloon. I am keeping track of three things: number of marbles, number of marbles kissing skin, and...
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Lee Bonnifield
lee@...
Jun 9, 2002 6:10 pm
... I don't think I understand kissing in 1D. Is there an assumption here of a discrete metric? Thinking of a continuous 1D number line there is no "next" ...
I'm not done with the chart yet but I counted 475 exterior spheres in a cluster of 1353 spheres. Did anyone count the number of external spheres in the 1000...
... Isn't it cheating to speak of circles (2D objects) in the 1D case? The question can be phrased in many equivalent ways; if you think of filled objects,...
